A Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests
A recent LIGO catalog update more than doubled the number of confirmed gravitational wave signals—ripples in spacetime caused…
APOD: 2026 March 26 – Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting
APOD: 2026 March 26 – Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting Discover the cosmos! Each…
Expanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universe
Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals,…
Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
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Double Cosmic Explosion Gives Birth to Unprecedented ‘Superkilonova’
When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called supernovas. On rarer occasions, two nearly dead…
New device gives LIGO 10x boost to spot distant gravitational waves
Gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime caused by cosmic collisions like merging black holes, are almost impossibly faint.…
Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to…
International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions | Innovate UK
An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection of 128…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…
Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves from Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
Using twin detectors of NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), astrophysicists with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration have detected…